I need to count the values in 2nd column from the output of some command. However, the challenge is I need to consider only those lines which comes after a line containing specific patter. For example:...

I'm looking for an elegant way to execute a command in every folder where grep has found a match in a file. Much like find's -execdir flag, except that find only searches folder/file names, but not ...

I have a set of files containing boot variables from several cisco switches in the network. I have an requirement to filter only the switches with the boot variable empty on the next reload and print ...

I am trying to find all *.md at ${PWD}, then grep for lines beginning with title: and print it along with the absolute filepath -H and the line number of the pattern match -n, then I try to output the ...

I know that squeezing multiple blank lines can be done using cat -s (and squeezing all blank lines can be done using tr -s '\n'), but I'm curious how to search for this condition in a stream of input.
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I need to look for the string "Total CPU time used" in a set of files that are generated in an iterative calculation within a great number of subfolders called folder_A, folder_B, folder_C and so on.
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I have a file in which snort signatures are stored, I need to extract Bold ones "sid" and CVE number from that signature, here is a sample signature
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET ...

In the directory /home/username/data I have both files and directories. Some of these filenames end in .txt (to which I'll refer as text files), others don't. The same happens in the subdirectories.
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So what I would need is for grep to match only the text in between (and including) my match pattern.
So something like this (don't mind the text, it's just some garble :D):
asdgfasd gasd gdas g This ...

I want to check the absence of the following sequence of characters $$$$$ (i.e., 5 dollar signs) in a json file using grep as it has been used instead of comma to separate fields and I need to make ...

Let's say I'm in the Desktop directory and want to count the number of files and directories whose name is exam. It should also count the files containing the string exam. So to sum it up I need to:
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When I grep a string in a file, it gives me a match. However, when I do it in a bash script, it doesn't work.
$ cat files_android.txt
000d07dfe5016314c98b869c19c7f986b5db57db49ac76d16a5d2f5861a35072
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From below 3lines I need to grep and cut jar file name only.
How to grep jar name from the line and cut from there.
Downloading:https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/spring-aop/5....

using tar --list --file=x will list all files and folders.
I am just looking to list the top level files and folders
does anyone know how to do that?
alternatively, does anyone know how to list only ...

I'm trying to search through a set of text files and return the names of files that on a specified line contain a text pattern OR do not contain the text on the specified.
In my case I need to return ...